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7 Oct 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack updated lawmakers Thursday on the department's plans to expand meat processing capacity while the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee indicated he expects to extend the current Livestock Mandatory (Price) Reporting Act for another full year. In a long, wide-ranging hearing Thursday on livesto...
7 Oct 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- A coalition of agricultural organizations, backed by funding from a handful of foundations, has formed a new group to champion the creation of a voluntary USDA climate change program to pay farmers $100 an acre or more to apply conservation practices on their farms. Calling themselves Rural Investment to Protect our Environment (RIPE...
7 Oct 2021
ANKENY, Iowa (DTN) -- There's nothing simple about figuring out crop fertility for 2022. Examining what worked and what didn't this year and pairing that with soil and in-season tissue testing is a good place to start. Sulfur, potassium and phosphorus were among the top nutrients that some corn and soybeans ran short on in 2021, according to agrono...
6 Oct 2021
OMAHA (DTN) -- Retail fertilizer prices are pushing considerably higher once again, according to prices tracked by DTN for the fourth week of September 2021. Five of the eight major fertilizers saw significant price increases, which DTN designates as 5% or higher, compared to last month. Leading the way was potash, which was 13% higher compared to ...
6 Oct 2021
Editor's Note: For the past two weeks, and continuing this week, DTN/Progressive Farmer is posting a special series called Cybersecurity and Ag to examine the threat cyberattackers pose to agriculture and explore what farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses can do to protect themselves against these high-tech criminals. This is the sixth story in the ...